1:1 Focusing Sessions
Individual Focusing sessions supporting self-healing, embodiment, and inner clarity
An Invitation
These sessions are an invitation into deep, embodied listening — a space where your life can be met from the inside, slowly and with care.
Rather than analysing experience or trying to fix what is difficult, Embodied Listening Sessions support you to gently turn toward what is present in the body and allow meaning, movement, and healing to emerge organically.
This work is offered one-to-one, at a pace shaped by your nervous system, your history, and what your life is asking of you now.
What is Embodied Listening?
Embodied Listening Sessions draw on an inner work paradigm known as Inner Relationship Focusing — a gentle yet profound practice of deep inner listening.
Originally discovered in the 1950s by philosopher and psychologist Eugene Gendlin, Focusing arose from a simple but far-reaching recognition: lasting change happens when we listen into experience, rather than thinking about it.
Anne Weiser Cornell later extended and refined this work, developing Inner Relationship Focusing as a way of meeting inner parts and experiences with warmth, curiosity, and non-pathologising presence.
Her contribution brought a deeply relational dimension to Focusing — one that allows wounded, protective, or disowned aspects of experience to be met with care, curiosity, and compassion, rather than effort or control.
At the heart of this practice is the Felt Sense — a subtle, whole-body knowing that forms in response to life. It is not an emotion or a thought, but a living, embodied sense that carries far more information than the thinking mind alone can access.
When met within a gentle, unhurried container, the felt sense naturally unfolds — offering clarity, relief, and next steps that are uniquely tailored to you. In this way, Embodied Listening sessions open a doorway to metabolising what no longer serves, restoring inner coherence, and revealing the deeper intelligence that lives beneath habitual patterns.
As this listening deepens, some find that insight and healing arise alongside a deeper felt sense of the sacred — one that is palpably alive in the body itself, and imbued with an imminent sense of nourishment and possibility.
What Happens in a Session?
Sessions begin by slowing down
Together, we create a grounded and regulated space where the body feels safe enough to speak. From there, we gently orient toward whatever is most alive — whether that is grief, confusion, emotional pain, numbness, longing, or a quiet sense that something important wants to be felt.
I work using Inner Relationship Focusing, a relational approach that allows us to meet the different inner presences that arise — including wounded, protective, or disowned parts of experience — with compassion and respect.
Nothing is forced.
Nothing is bypassed.
And nothing needs to be fixed.
Instead, we listen together, allowing what has been unheard or carried alone to be met in relationship.
What This Work Can Support
Embodied Listening Sessions may support you to:
tend wounded, disavowed, or long-carried inner parts
metabolise emotional pain without overwhelm or collapse
cultivate self-trust, inner coherence, and self-compassion
experience rest and nourishment, even when touching difficult material
find clarity at moments of transition, grief, or uncertainty
deepen spiritual life through direct, embodied experience, rather than abstraction
Many people find this work quietly transformative. Even when difficult experiences arise, sessions are often described as deeply restful — because the body is no longer carrying things alone.
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"After 2yrs it amazes me I personally recieve a break through in every session, although it is never my intention. This work has given me the most progress and greater awareness into myself"
Candice, NSW
An Alternative to Traditional Therapy
While these sessions draw on my background in somatic psychotherapy, they are not conventional talk therapy.
We are guided primarily by the intelligence of the body and the unfolding process within it, rather than by narrative analysis, diagnosis, or problem-solving. Nervous system regulation is prioritised first to create a gentle, slow container for inner parts and processes to emerge organically. And the work unfolds from there.
This creates conditions where insight, healing, and meaning can arise naturally, in their own time — from the body outward — rather than being imposed from outside or conceptually coerced using hard-and-fast frameworks.
Practical Details
Session length: 60 minutes
Format: Online (with the option for in-person sessions in the Blue Mountains
Pace: Slow, relational, and attuned
Frequency: One-off sessions or ongoing accompaniment at a cadence that suits you
No prior experience with Focusing is needed. The first is all about listening to your story and what you’d like to get out of your time Focusing. From there, we turn inwards, and trust the body to show us what is needed; slowly, gently and with compassion.
Book a Session With Me
If you feel drawn to explore this work, you’re welcome to book a private Embodied Listening Session.
This is an opportunity to experience Somatic Focusing directly and sense whether this way of listening supports what you’re navigating in your life right now.